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Solitary waves in trapezoidal channels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

D. H. Peregrine
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematies, University of Bristol

Abstract

Experimental measurements were made of the variation of water-surface height across the crests of solitary waves travelling along trapezoidal channels. The channels had one vertical side and the other side sloped at either 30°, 45° or 60° to the vertical. Reliable results were not obtained with the last channel, but for the other channels there was reasonable agreement with recent theoretical results.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1969 Cambridge University Press

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